On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Craig Smith wrote:
> I wouldn't make one that would not allow some type of movement, during
> operation something is gonna have to give some place and if you hard fix it
> in the car the only two places that would take up the movement would be the
> front motor mounts and the diff. donuts in the rear.
Then you wouldn't want a Herald or earlier Vitesse/Sports 6. Most of these
cars had a giant drain pipe of a driveshaft, solid as a rock (ok, it
really isn't solid, but hollow) save for the u-joints themselves. Put
politely, it's one heavy m*th*r of a driveshaft!
--Andy
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